Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: Rebecca Dow agrees to ethics violations settlement she still descries as a witchhunt and Virgin Galactic AGAIN postpones the start of passenger spaceflights.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.8.22
98 percent of all guns in America are in civilian hands. In the 1970s America and Russia addressed the escalating arms race through the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) agreement. But when it comes to the deescalation of guns here in America, we can't even get a conversation started.
Read MoreThe (bearing of) arms race in America
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: snapshots of how the federal government, state authorities and New Mexico citizens are dealing with the Southwest's existential water crisis.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.5.22
One of the joys of the monsoon season in New Mexico (besides the rain) is the spectacular skies that appear before, during and after the showers.
Read MoreMonsoon sky
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: a partial assessment of the Black Fire's damage to southern New Mexico ranchlands and notification of a agriculture-related wildfire recovery effort meeting.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.4.22
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: dissecting the meaning of yesterday's reproductive freedom vote in Kansas.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.3.22
The city commission's "public" representatives on a committee that will weigh whether to dissolve the court are the city manager and an ex-city commissioner.
Read MoreLike jury tampering, municipal court’s dissolution almost guaranteed
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: the influence of high oil and gas prices and the industry's political contributions in New Mexico's 2022 election.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 8.1.22
The biggest budget the city has ever passed, a final budget massively different from the draft budget, and yet no questions and no discussion from city commissioners.
Read MoreTruth or Consequences City Commission approves $47-million final budget
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: the high cost of and possible remedies for New Mexicans' record rates of alcohol abuse.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 7.28.22
Learning a bit about them makes them more interesting, much more interesting than "a whole lot of noisy bugs."
Read MoreCicadas among us
Must-read reporting and commentary from around the state and the country. Today's intelligence: U.S. Representative Yvette Herrell's influential new appointment; the Rio Grande's dessication; and New Mexico's new mental health hotline.
Read MoreStuff you need to know, 7.25.22